Before joining the Austrian Academy of Sciences in September 2019, he was a scientific project assistant and an interim deputy head of the ‘Tyrolean Dialect Archive’ (‘Tiroler Dialektarchiv’, TDA) at the University of Innsbruck where he co-developed an online language atlas along with the digital phonetic script font 'Antonia Phonetic' and held an introductory seminar on ‘Language and Space’. He obtained his master’s degree in linguistics at the University of Innsbruck with a thesis on ‘The Southern Bavarian-Central Bavarian Isoglosses in the Tyrolean Unterland’ as well as a bachelor’s degree in biology and an apprenticeship diploma in orthopaedic shoemaking.